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Small Iowa City Gets $1M for Geothermal Project

October 29th, 2009

DES MOINES, Iowa, October 13, 2009 (ENS) – Iowa Governor Chet Culver today awarded $1 million to the City of West Union to establish an innovative geothermal district-wide heating and cooling system and a radiant-heat snow-melt system.A city of about 2,500 in the northeastern corner of the state, West Union is the county seat of […]

RSMeans’ Construction Cost Index Advances in July; Coincides with Improving Housing Markets

September 2nd, 2009

9/2/2009 – RSMeans’ construction cost index has started to advance again. In the latest quarter, as reported for July 2009, the composite figure moved ahead 2.9% quarter-to-quarter annualized, although it remained unchanged compared with its level of a year ago. In the preceding quarter, it was -7.9% annualized and in the one before that, it […]